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Jaron Lanier
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American computer scientist, musician, and author
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 may 1960
- Works
- 20
Top works
- 10 аргументов удалить все свои аккаунты в социальных сетях
- Contra el rebaño digital
- ¿Quién controla el futuro?
- ¿Quién controla el futuro?
- Dez Argumentos Para Você Deletar Agora Suas Redes Sociais
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Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. A pioneer in the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a…
Known for
- The Social Dilemma — Self2020
- Retro Tech — Self - Eye Phone Inventor (archive footage)2019
- Reich: Three Tales — Self2002
- Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek2000
- Synthetic Pleasures — Self1995
- Kulturzeit — self1995
- Cyberpunk — Himself1990
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- 823
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Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author.He was a pioneer in, and popularized the term "Virtual Reality" (VR) in the early 1980s. At that time, he founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products. His current appointments include Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley. As a musician, Lanier has been active in the world of new classical music since the late 1970s. He is a pianist and a specialist in many unusual music
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- GenomeScope 2.0 and Smudgeplot for reference-free profiling of polyploid genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,460x
- Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease
· 2023 · cited 2,413x
- Activation of NK Cells and T Cells by NKG2D, a Receptor for Stress-Inducible MICA
· 1999 · cited 2,354x
- NK CELL RECOGNITION
· 2005 · cited 2,283x
- Innate or Adaptive Immunity? The Example of Natural Killer Cells
· 2011 · cited 2,279x
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Quotes
- “I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.”
- “The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious "proof" that such adventures are futile.”
- “People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.”
- “There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better.”
- “If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.”
- “Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Jaron Zepel Lanier , ( 1960-05-03 ) May 3, 1960 (age 66) , New York City , U.S.
- Education
- New Mexico State University
- Occupations
- Computer scientist, composer, visual artist, author
- Employer s
- Atari , Advanced Network and Services , VPL Research , Silicon Graphics , Columbia University , New York University , Microsoft
- Known for
- Co-founder of Virtual reality
- Website
- www .jaronlanier .com
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- Official website
- www.jaronlanier.com
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- Jaron Lanier 1.jpg
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- Jaron Lanier
- date of birth
- 1960-05-03
- name in native language
- Jaron Zepel Lani
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Jaron Zepel Lanier (/ˈdʒeɪrɪn lɪˈnɪər/, born May 3, 1960) is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006, he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist.
Lanier has composed contemporary classical music and is a collector of rare instruments (of which he owns one to two thousand); his acoustic album, Instruments of Change (1994) features Asian wind and string instruments such as the khene mouth organ, the suling flute, and the sitar-like esraj. Lanier worked with Mario Grigorov to compose the soundtrack to the documentary film The Third Wave (2007).